Paquiquineo

Paquiquineo, later known as Don Luis de Velasco, was a Powhatan native who, in 1571, murdered the Spanish priest Juan Baptista de Segura.

Biography
Paquiquineo was born to the Powhatan Native American tribe of Virginia, and, in June 1561, he was taken captive by the Spanish and brought back to Spain. He was presented before King Philip II of Spain, who granted him permission to lead a Catholic mission back to the Americas. He fell ill in Mexico City and stayed there for years, and he converted to Christianity and adopted the name of the Viceroy of New Spain, Luis de Velasco. After two failed attempts to return home, he sailed to Spain to join a Jesuit mission to the Chesapeake, and they arrived in 1570. He initially aided the Jesuits, but, after returning home to his family, he reverted to the name Paquiquineo and ambushed the missionaries in February 1571, sparing only an altar boy. When the Spanish retaliated by hanging several Indians in 1572, they could never locate Paququineo.